Dropshipping Success Stories

We are interested in your success and would like to feature your company and story on our site.  This will be a free review of your site and how you have made money dropshipping products for profit.  Simply send us an email with your business details and your story and we’ll add you to our drop shipping success section.  This is a great win/win as we get to tell your story to our visitors and you get some free promotion for your business.

What our audience wants to hear is not just how wealthy you’ve become but rather how you did it.  Send your story to info@dropshiptutor.com and we’ll most likely have your story up in one business day.

Some Great Products To Drop Ship

If you are thinking of selling products online, here are some you will want to check out.  I’ve just did a little research and came up with some products worth looking in to.  Perhaps I’ll save you from putting up another dreaded electronics store!

• Vacuum Sealers
• Snowboards
• Skateboards
• Bowling Balls
• Spas
• Patio Furniture

Some of these products I researched myself a little while back and for the others I know people who are currently very successful selling them.  The key is to find a nice niche with products that have a large enough profit margin so you have room to advertise.

Breaking Even For Profit

Usually when a company is assessing ROI on their advertising campaign they look at the simple figures.  If they spent $1000.00 and profitted twice that much, then they are doing well.  But if they didn’t make their money back or merely broke even, then they consider the campaign unsuccessful.  But is that really all we need to look at?

Many companies underestimate the power of branding on the internet.  One reason they do this is because branding takes time and the dividends don’t always show up until down the road, making it hard to measure.  For example someone purchases a product at your website and then comes back a year later to buy something else.  This won’t show up right away when tallying those numbers.  Or this same person during that year tells a few of her friends about your website and some of them visit your site and purchase your products.  They then come back again and also tell their friends who tell their friends and before you know it you’re the next Yahoo!  Well just don’t hold your breath on that one.

Another benefit of spending your advertising budget to make zero profit is in building a mailing list.  Most ecommerce software these days collects your customer’s phone numbers, address, and email address.  This enables you to offer discounts and special offers to your past customers.  Since these customers already bought from you there is a certain degree of trust established and this makes them more likely to buy from you again.  So in sending out a simple email or coupon in the mail, you can bring some of those customers back to buy again.  While it may have cost you using Google Adwords for example a dollar for the click to pick up a new customer, the email you send that results in additional sales from them may cost you nothing.  And you can do this again and again for months and years to come!

So when assessing your advertising campaign don’t just look at the figures but be sure and consider in the other factors.  If you are breaking even or even losing money, you could very well be on your way!  Can you say Yahoo!

SEO Tip For Dropshippers

When selecting a domain for your dropship store, choose one with your main product name in it.  If you are selling ‘patio furniture’, then try to include this in your domain.  But don’t make your domain too long and clunky, keep it as short and sweet as possible.  For example ‘mypatiofurniture.com’ or ‘patioheaven.com’ make nice domain names but ‘low-cost-patio-furniture-online.com’ does not, yuck!  Remember also the importance of branding and try and come up with a domain that is easy to remember.  The search engines love keywords in the domain and it could make the difference in your SEO campaign!

What Product Should You Dropship?

I’m going to tell you one simple tip about choosing a product to dropship that may make the difference for you.  Sell high end niche products with a profit margin that leaves you plenty of room to advertise!  This way you can start selling immediately with PPC Advertising.  In other words you don’t want to sell something for $9.95 when it may cost you that or more to get a customer.  You want a product you can sell for $295.00 that brings in a profit of $95.00.  Now you have room to advertise and if you spend $25 to get that new customer, so what, you’ve still made $70.00!  The key to finding success dropshipping online is in selling higher end niche merchandise.  I keep mentioning snowboards on this blog as they are a perfect example of the type of product you want to drop ship.  There is a big enough profit margin that will both leave you room to advertise and make a nice profit.  Don’t waste your time on the perfect store that sells every little thing you can think of, go high end niche and cash in.  Afterall, you’re dropshipping and there is no need to carry any inventory, so go for the gold!

From Zero To Hero!

Being a veteran on the web and having run many different websites and businesses, the biggest problem to overcome while doing business on the internet is getting out of the blocks.  When you first put up that fancy website you’re so proud of you are on top of the world, but then when you have only ten people trickling in all month, you wonder why you even started such a venture.  Getting traffic to your site no matter how beautiful you think it is takes a lot of work and doesn’t come easy. While it is true if you build it they will come, the problem is they may only be a pig farmer from Nebraska that accidentally stumbled on to your real estate site while looking for a used tractor and a lawyer who now wants to sue you because you violated someones trademark!

Discipline and Patience, The Key To Internet Success

The secret is staying disciplined and of course being very patient.  The truth is it will take you a good 6 months to a year to get a website off the ground.  If you expect too much too soon you’ll only be dissapointed and end up quitting.  But if you take the slow and steady approach and create simple attainable goals, you will often keep the passion alive.  For example instead of expecting 10,000 visitors to your site in the first month, shoot for 500.  Then work your way up to 1,000 and upwards.  Progress is the key and if you keep at it over the course of time the dividends will start coming in.

Blogging To Express Yourself & For Profit

Blogging is a great way to both express yourself online and make some extra money.  For example with this new blog I’m simply trying to add a good five or so posts per week and if I keep at it in two years I’ll have over 500 pages of good quality content.  I don’t expect to make any real money for a good while and so I simply focus on writing steady posts and trying to slowly increase the traffic. 

So if you have a new website and are frustrated because nobody seems to ever find it, hang in there and give it some time.  One of my first websites I put on the web about 9 years ago was about golf.  I remember I started getting some consistent traffic and good search engine rankings.  But in about a year I gave up on it and the domain is now one of those cookie cutter search pages.  I often wonder if I had kept that site going how well it would be doing today 9 years down the road.  Perhaps I would be retired now! The key on the internet is patience and time.  If you can do nothing else write, write, and write good content and build up your site.  The search engines love websites that offer fresh daily content. 

The American Dream Online

While your handful of visitors and $10 per month profit may not be the American dream, keep at it and that $10 extra per month could turn into $1000 a year from now.  Since it is so easy to put up sites these days and blog, put up a few sites about topics you are passionate about.  Now in a year with a little more work you may be making $3000 per month.  Stay the course of time and focus on progress not perfection and keep your goals short term and attainable. Good luck and don’t give up!

Worldwide Brands Review

When it comes to dropshipping and sourcing products to sell Worldwide Brands is the undisputed champion. Their online directory of wholesale and dropship suppliers is second to none. Over the course of many years their team has compiled a true list of wholesale and dropship companies unlike the many other garbage directories out there. The tools they offer to search and locate the proper businesses and the forms to contact them are also very nicely done. Within minutes of becoming a member you are on your way to finding the products you want to sell at Ebay or your own online store. With the power of the internet and sites like Worldwide Brands it couldn’t be easier to start making money online today!  Click here to get started sourcing products at the leader in product sourcing Worldwide Brands!

Beat The Recession

Worldwide Brands has put out some great information on how you can beat the recession through ecommerce. While the economy is suffering ecommerce is believe it or not booming! That’s right the problems with the economy aren’t slowing down ecommerce any and if you are out a job or recently taken a pay cut, the internet is the place to be. Finding the right niche product to sell could bring in the extra cash you need to survive these hard times. Head on over to Worldwide Brands and learn how to dig in during these hard times with ecommerce!

Go Niche When Selling Drop Ship Products

Many of us when we think of selling drop ship products online picture that ultimate electronics store.  Selling tv’s, cameras, and dvd’s is quite a glamarous idea and surely will bring in the profits!  But the truth is everyone and their brother and even sister now has an online electronics store.  There are literally thousands of them and trying to compete with everyone and their brother and sister too is not so easy!

Go niche!  Yes when selling online it is better to focus on a niche as opposed to selling very general type products.  The trick is in finding products that many people are looking to buy but not everyone is selling.  You can do a simple search on google for example and look at the amount of sites selling a particular product.  For example right now on Google when I type in “electronics” in quotes I get 487,000,000 results!  That is an awful lot of webpages to be competing with.  But when I type in “snowboards” I get 5,960,000 results!  Do you see the difference?

So now that we’ve determined it would be easier to drop ship snowboards online than electronics, let’s look at how many people are looking to buy snowboards.  Let’s head on over to http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ and see how many people are searching for “snowboards” online.  When I do the search using Word Trackers cool keyword tool it tells me that 460 searches were done for “snowboards” as opposed to over 2,000 for “electronics”.  So about 5 times the amount of searches were done for “electronics” than ”snowboards”.  But the amount of webpages for “electronics” outnumber “snowboards” by over 90 to 1!  Those numbers tell us that going niche in this case is the way to go.  You can do this drill to your hearts content and find that perfect niche product to sell.  Since you can drop ship about any product you can think of, hours of good research can bring in the dividends.  Don’t rush into selling online, do the homework and it could pay off big!

Starting An Online Store & SEO

Anyone these days can start an online store, but not anyone can be successful selling their products on the internet.  Many people are excited to put up an online store but then find it very difficult to get any traffic.  The very nature of the usual online store people start makes it very difficult to optimize for the search engines.  While it’s true you can try PPC, not everyone can make a profit from the increasingly higher PPC bids.  So that really leaves SEO as the best shot someone has at doing well selling products online.

SEO is very difficult for online stores because they often have little real content and product descriptions are often all there is for the search engines to spider.  Creating more detailed product titles and descriptions is of course smart and will help, but it only goes so far.    The other problem is quality inbound links are essential to getting your site ranked high on the search engines and nobody ever cares to link to Suzy’s Candle Shop.  This got me thinking of an idea for those who want to start an online store.  This really isn’t my idea as I’ve seen others implement this before, but instead of just opening up an online store, first create a content based site about the main products you will sell.  For example if you were planning on selling snowboards online, then first create a site all about snowboards.  Create the online guide to snowboarding and write articles about everything you can think of related to snowboarding such as top snowboarder bios, top places to snowboard, a news section or blog about the latest in snowboarding, etc.  Now optimize your “Guide to Snowboarding” site and work on building steady traffic.  Once you get a steady stream of traffic coming in, now open up your store!

Once your store is open be sure and include links from your content pages to your online catalog.  For example at the bottom of an article about a particular popular snowboarding champion, you can have a link to purchase the brand of snowboard they use.  Blend the two sites together and create the ultimate online store/guide to snowboarding site.  When doing this it is best to focus on niche products as opposed to the type of store that sells many different unrelated products.  Try it and please send me an email if you find success!